English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 4, April 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: It's Gotta Be Spring

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Why I Teach in a Public/Private School

  Marilyn Stassen-McLaughlin, Lee E. Allen, Mary Langer Thompson, Ray Greenblatt

• To Help a Nation at Risk, Try Boyer and Goodlad

  Theodore W. Hipple, Jeffrey S. Kaplan, Joan Kaywell

• Shifting Standards of Literacy-The Teacher's Catch 22

  Miles Myers

• "We have found your article perspicacious in many respects; however..."

  Ernestine D. Sewell and Charles E. Linck, Jr.

• Circles in the Present Tense

  Charles W. Yerger

• Opting for Part-time, or Combining Motherhood with Teaching

  Helen L. McGuire

• Light in July

  Barbara J. Rebbeck

• Setting Up a High School ESL Program

  Sharon Huck

• I've Got It Badly and That Ain't Well

  Barbara R. DuBois

• Meandering through the Behavioral Labyrinth

  Cheryl Micucci

• Food for Thought-A Parable for Writers

  Elizabeth Winston

• Reading for Answers and Reading for Questions

  David B. Bronson

• O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us ...

  Carolyn Estes

• Judy Blume: New Classicism for Kids

  Stephen M. Garber

• The Half-Truths about English

  Carol Peterson Haviland and Sara Jayne Steen

• Reassignment: Threat or Promise?

  Beverly Ashton and Julia Hollingsworth

• The National Endowment Secondary Seminars, or the Best Thing I Ever Bought with My Taxes

  Nancy Traubitz

• A Stepping Stone to Melville

  Walter H. Johnson

• Cultural Literacy: What Are Our Goals?

  Audrey T. Edwards

• Our Readers Write

• Recommended: Saul Bellow

  Michael Bancroft

• Too Good to Miss

  Oliver Conant

• Departments

• A Little of This and That

  Patricia P. Kelly

• Thirty-One Ways to Avoid Book Reports

  Nanora Sweet

• Books Worth Putting on Your Summer Reading List

  Dick Abrahamson and Barbara Kiefer

• Teaching Journalism on the Micro

  Vincent E. Schrader

• Poem: un Just spring (with apologies to e.e. cummings)

  Connie Anestis

• Poem: Blue Turtles

  C. D. Rogers

• Poem: On First Opening Shakespeare

  Timothy B. Messick

• Poem: Rough Draft

  John Kendall

• Poem: High School Reunion

  Donald M. Murray

• Poem: My Parents at the Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair, 1933

  Kay Meier

• NCTE to You

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